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Education Is The Best Weapon Against Crime And Violence

The fact is that education is a strong weapon against crime in this contemporary world. 

Because everything begins with education. Indeed, a society cannot exist without education. Our society but also our mentality depends on education. 

If education was different, based on other rights (better or worse) the society would change its face according to the inhabitant living there.

Thus, education is not only the most powerful weapon to change the world, it is the only one. 

In fact, the army or religion for example does not have such influence as education, even one cannot be an army or religious leader without him going to school. 

If an army or a religion wants to change the world or the mentality, they cannot totally achieve this objective. 

Because education has allowed some people to take their own decisions and therefore not to be influenced. 

We have some examples of this situation in history, During the 15th Century, persons like Martin Luther or Jean Calvin opposed the supremacy and the total control over thoughts by the Catholic Church, creating Protestantism. 

Another example is the resistance of some Chinese citizens against the communist dictatorship during the 20th and the 21st Century. 

This intellectual resistance is possible through education. We can see that education is the most powerful weapon to change the world.
            But like every weapon, education can be used for noble causes but also for the worst crimes.

 Education, like in most developed Countries, is used to learn respect of human rights, intellectual and religious tolerance, but also to learn to form his own opinion, to think alone and to prepare his future, education is the best thing for the society and the Country.   

With this type of education, the children, who are the future of the Nation, receive a solid foundation for a successful like but also for participation in the organization of the society in a good way. 

Even if education is not a success for everybody in the developed world, we can see that when education is used in a good way, it affects all sectors of the world.

7 Tips Why Content Marketing Is Better Than Link Building

Content marketing is a marketing technique for creating and distributing valuable, relevant and consistent content to attract and acquire a clearly defined audience with the objective of driving profitable customer action.

Content marketing is basically telling an engaging story that offers a solution to a common need and can take place on your website, your blog, in a press release, with an article directory, or through social media.

The key word here is “valuable.” It is the process of creating high-quality, valuable content to attract, inform, and engage an audience, while also promoting your brand.

Here are Seven (7) tips why content marketing is better than link building

1. You Can Measure the Value of Content Easier Than you Can a Link

2. It’s Natural.

3. Good Content Writers are Cheaper than Good Link Builders.

4. It’s More Scalable.

5. It’s More Defensible to Algorithm Updates.

6. Authoritative Writers Are The Future.

7. It’s More Fun...lol

But you will require both for ranking your keyword. I just tell you in which way content marketing is better than link building

It is creating and distributing valuable, relevant, and consistent content to attract and retain a clearly defined audience.

It is a marketing focused on creating, publishing and distributing content for a targeted audience online.

This involves getting traffic and exposure of products by creating unique, valuable and useful content or articles.

You need to peak interest and deliver a message that answers your prospects most important question.

Have a wonderful day.

8 Roles Of The Government In Agricultural Development

The Government have roles to play in Agricultural Development, some of the roles government needs to play are listed below:

1.   Provision of financial assistance such as loans, subsidy, insurance.

2.   Establishment of farm settlement scheme and other agricultural programmes e.g. operation feed the nation (OFN), green revolution River basin development Authority.

3.   Provision of farm input e.g. tractor hiring unit, improved seeds, fertilizer, agro chemical (pesticides, herbicide, insecticides)

4.   Provision of basic amenities e.g. electricity, health care, water supply, e.t.c

5.   Establishment of effective roads and transportation network,, marketing outlet and quality control measure

6.   Provision of adequate storage facility

7.   Provision of pests and disease control service, vaccination, quarantine control service

8.   Provision of extension services, agricultural education and cooperative.

11 Problems And Solutions Of Agricultural Development In Nigeria

Agriculture in Nigeria has not developed beyond the level at which it is now because of some problems militating against its development which include:-
1.   Inadequate land/land tenure system:  As a result of increase in population the amount of land available for farming (Commercial Farming) has drastically reduce.

This is because the land is used in building houses, schools, road hospitals etc, for the increasing population. This has reduced agricultural production.
2.   Inadequate Finance/Credit Facilities: Majority of the farmer do not have the huge amount of money that is required for commercial farming and it is difficult to get loan from the banks because of the high interest rate which is not profitable for agriculture and the collateral security that is required. 

So farmers now practice subsistence farming which makes it difficult to provide enough agricultural produce for the nation.

3.   Poor Transportation Network: Farmers find it difficult to transport their produce from the point of production (farm) to the point of sale because of poor transportation network.

The roads that link the farm to the market are bad, only few transporters can afford to ply these roads.
 Therefore majority of the produce get spoilt without getting to the market because of poor transportation network.

4.   Poor storage and processing facilities: Farmers sell almost all their produce immediately after production. This is because there are no adequate storage facilities and they cannot be processed into other products because of inadequate processing facilities.

This leads to a situation whereby food cannot be made available throughout the year and it results into high prices for the few that is available.

5.   Inadequate farm input:  Most of the farm inputs are imported therefore farmers cannot afford to buy them for use because of the high cost. These had greatly reduced agricultural production; some of these inputs are not available at the right time when they can be used for production.

6.   Inadequate Basic Amenities/Infrastructure: Basic amenities/Infrastructure such as electricity, pipe born water, good road, health care centre, communication facilities e.tc. are not available in the rural areas where agricultural production is taking place. Hence, farmers are moving from rural areas to urban centres which reduces agricultural production.

7.   Poor Marketing System: There is no organized/structure marketing channels for goods that are produced by farmers, middlemen offer low prices at farm gates and they sell at exorbitant prices to consumer thereby making the greater percentage of the profit.

8.  Problems/Outbreak of pests and diseases: There is always outbreak of pests and diseases which farmers find difficult to prevent and control, this leads to loss of crops and animals

9.   Illiteracy: Majority of our farmers cannot read nor write, this drastically affects their production.

10. Inadequate Extension Work
The ratio of farmers to extension workers is very low and this affects agricultural production.

11.  Inconsistent government policies on Agriculture: Agricultural policies put in place by the government suffer set back whenever new  people comes into power.

This set back causes lot of problem for farmers and reduces their productivity.

SUGGESTED SOLUTIONS TO AGRICULTURAL PROBLEMS
1.   Inadequate Land: Government should enforce the provisions of the land use act of 1978 to help farmers acquire more land.

2.   Inadequate finance and credit facilities:  Government should ensure that loans are given to farm at low interest rate.

3.   Poor Transportation: Government and non- governmental organizations should construct more motorable roads that will link the rural areas to the urban centres and maintain the existing ones.

4.   Inadequate processing facilities: Government and able non-governmental organization should provide storage and processing facilities for farmers use either free of charge or at highly subsidized rate.

5.   Inadequate Farm Input:  Government and able non-governmental organizations should make farm inputs available to farmers at highly subsidized rate

6.   Inadequate Basic amenities:  Government and able non governmental organizations should provide basic amenities in the rural areas for farmers use.

7.   Poor Marketing System: Government should set up marketing boards to ensure good prices for farm produce.

8.   Problems of Pests and Diseases: Government should strengthen the appropriate agencies for effective control of pests and diseases.

9.   There should be provision of irrigation facilities for use on farmers

10.   Illiteracy: Government should organize adult literacy programme for the farmers so that they will be able to read and write.

11.  Problems of Extension Workers:  More extension workers should be employed by the government so as to guide farmers in their production.